Elephant Butte Meetup, June 2024
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- Oldest daughter Sharon rented a VRBO in Elephant Butte, New Mexico. She invited youngest daughter, Chloe and me to join her. Shogo, Chloe's SO, and John, Sharon's husband, and Nolan, Sharon's son, would also be there. We'd spend four nights at the VRBO. Our activities would include some off-road travels, lake fun, and visiting a museum and wine vineyard. I would also take in a few sights along the way there and home. While most of the trip is documented with still photos, the travel along a section of the New Mexico Backcountry Discovery Route (NMBDR) to Chloride Canyon is all video. It begins at 2:38.
The music includes "Summer Somewhere In Cuba" by Cumbia Deli, and "Cartoon (Sting)" by Twin Musicom. Cumbia Deli's song is offered by the CZcams Audio Library for free use in CZcams videos. Twin Musicom's song is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
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What great scenery out there! Bummer about the tire, but I'm glad you got back up and running quickly.
New Mexico is a really pretty state. And only lightly traveled. If we'd continued through Chloride Canyon and up over the Continental Divide, we'd have been in the Gila National Forest. I have three other video series exploring that area, including my two past attempts to cross the divide. One was not possible due to deep snow along the route. The other was stopped a short ways before the rock art when my Jeep engine water pump spilt its guts. Fortunately we were able to have one of the other folks run to TorC and pick up a water pump and coolant and swap the pump in the field. However, the delay was long enough that we elected to revert to mostly paved roads to get back into the national forest where we could camp.
As for the tire, fortunately I have two second spares, both mounted to rims, for the Wrangler and Gladiator. And the spare we mounted had only slight wear. Since I do drive off pavement a lot, I replace tires pretty early ... well before they are down to the treadwear indicators. So, not really any financial hit. The only question is how I'm going to handle the conversion over to KO IIIs, since that's been in the back of my mind when I get new tires for the Wrangler (by end of year, I expect). Do I buy five tires, and use an old KO II only as a second spare (in the rare case I decide I need to carry one), or buy four KO IIIs (and use KO IIs as all four spare tires)?
You got some good cattle guard footage on that one. I though that only I did that. Some pretty cool terrain again. Thanks for sharing! George.
@@swidahooverlanding2867 I think it was the 2017 solar eclipse where I mounted a camera on the front bumper, pointed down, as I crossed a cattle guard on the way up Hat Point Rd. A nice thing about solo travel is I can spend more time shooting odd camera angles. Usually the folks I travel with are quite accommodating, but I don't ask as much as I might like to do if by myself.
@@DxDOverland We honk at all cattle guards. It is a old family tradition. Lets the trolls know we are coming so they can let go of the cross beams before we drive over their fingers. Turns out cattle guards are spaced well on long boring stretches to keep the video scenery going. Never have caught a troll on video though.
When I was a kid, we used to yell out "Jinx joke! You owe me a Coke! 1-2-3!" at every cattle crossing. I taught that to my youngest daughter, so we did that a lot during our travels. Never did see anyone get that Coke though.
This was well put together, or is that put together well? No... I didn't notice the wiper either.
Thank you, Ron.